Prepare a Speech

Description:

For this assignment, you will prepare and write a delivery outline for a persuasive or informational speech.

Objectives:

Engage in the first six steps of preparing a speech, including selecting a topic, analyzing your audience, researching your topic, collecting supporting materials, developing main points, and organizing your speech materials.
Practice the final four steps of preparing a speech, including wording a speech, constructing a delivery outline, and rehearsing a speech.

Instructions:

Review the steps for preparing and delivering an effective speech that you explored in the textbook and in the learning activities.
Prepare a four to six page persuasive or informational essay on a topic of your choice.
Use the following checklist to ensure that your speech is effective:

Choose a topic that is relevant and interesting to your audience, with a clear purpose.
Ensure that you adequately research your topic.
Include an introduction that gains attention and orients the audience.
Be sure that your speech is clear, vivid, appropriate, well-organized, and powerful.
Be sure that each main point is supported adequately.
Create a speech with personal style by asking direct questions and creating immediacy.
Be sure that your conclusion summarizes your thesis and provides closure.

Assignment Submission:

The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all speeches must be cited using current APA format.
When you have completed the assignment, select the “Submit Assignment” button at the top of these instructions and choose a format for submitting your assignment.

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That moment when you are about to leave the house and rush to work, or the store and your child refuses to be left home alone or with a babysitter. What do you do next and yet to have to leave? That moment when as a parent you receive a phone call from school being summoned to school because your son or daughter was in a fight to which a student was hurt. The feeling you get when you receive a phone call from the police station that your child has been arrested or you get a knock at the door, and your child is being dropped off by two policemen or a police car?

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